To want to frame these articles and send them to newlyweds Charlie Brooker and Konnie Huq as a wedding gift?

[sallyseton]

Original "wife" article

Charlie Brooker-I'm looking for a wife but it'll probably help if she's not human

it's time to smother romance

yes it would be mean, yes it's utter schaudenfraude and karma would eventually bite me on the arse but it would be so funny.

It'll never last, mark my words.

hmm. I really like Charlie Brooker and wish them every happiness.

I meant obviously!

YABU by the way

Aww- I think it's great that hope can triumph over experience. Good luck to them both.

I remember feeling somewhat similar right before I met my DP. Then I ate my words.

why is everyone so down on these two? have you never changed your mind about anything, sallyseton?

YABU and a bit mean spirited. I've always thought that Charile Brooker's view of romance came from being badly hurt at some point and he struck me as being a bit lonely and wistful.

I think there's a thoroughly nice block lurking under that sarcastic exterior.

I say good luck to them!

bloke not block

What a mean post! Not funny - just mean.

I am wondering how he plans on keeping up his "newswipe" and "you've been watching" personas of belittling everything on tv which he views as being below his superior intellect when he has married an x-factor presenter.
I love Brooker and both shows by the way, it just seems as though now any snidey comment about some reality-celebs worth or some mindless entertainment show will be tinged by the inevitable response of "remind what your wife does again?"

Why does anyone think his tv persona must be the same as his personal beliefs? She's intelligent enough to know if he's really a twunt or not. And she married him. Good for them. [*]

Not sure if that was meant at my post or not. I'd say he'd be an unbelievably nice person in real life and have been told he's humble and accomodating by a few people who've met him (but at the end of the day this matters not a jot,how these two want to act in their personal life is none of my business and I wish them every happiness).
His persona is just that a persona, in the same way Jack Dee's persona is that of the weary bitter man, it's an act. My point was simply that I was wondering how the marriage will now affect his tv and writing persona. Because, for example, he can hardly slate BB or similar shows and their viewers without it being tinged by hypocrisy (i.e. if everything regarding reality tv and those involved is so moronic why have you married married someone so intrically involved with such a show.)
I like Brooker, was quite pleased when I heard he'd gotten married as he did it in the way you'd expect him to do it (low-key etc), my only thought was can his persona still seem authentic now.

Yeah sorry that was a bit rude and posted in haste. Apologies, biscuit and catsbum retracted.

On reflection I think that if he has any sense he will carry on just as he has done, without any explicit reference to any show she is on. I would like to imagine they are able to separate work and home life.

Maybe it will give his work an extra dimension, trying to balance the inherent sarcasm he almost can't help producing with the knowledge that at the end of the day he's in some trouble with the boss (her) if he slates anything she does.

Her, definitely. It seems to suit his two-fingers-to-the-world attitude though, to just go and do it.

Aw I think it's lovely and wish them all the best :)